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RAID Inc. + Spectrum Scale

RAID Inc. + Spectrum Scale Solutions

Enterprises and organizations are creating, analyzing and storing more data than ever before. Those that can deliver insights faster while managing rapid infrastructure growth are the leaders in their industry. In delivering those insights, an organization’s underlying storage must support new-era big data and artificial intelligence workloads along with traditional applications while ensuring security, reliability and high performance. IBM Spectrum Scale™ meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale with the distinctive ability to perform archive and analytics in place.

IBM Spectrum Scale is a high-performance clustered file system developed as a software defined storage for big data analytics, and available for cloud and NAS solutions. It can be deployed in shared-disk or shared-nothing distributed parallel modes.

Spectrum Scale-based solutions by RAID Inc. are used by many of the world’s largest enterprises and supercomputers. Whether you have an existing Spectrum Scale system that is underperforming or are planning something new, RAID Inc. can help.

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Key Benefits

Extreme Scalability

Leverage no-bottleneck architecture to scale performance for extreme throughput and low-latency access not expected from network-attached storage.

Data Aware Intelligence

Allow Spectrum Scale to grow and share your storage infrastructure while automatically moving file and object data to the optimal storage tier as quickly as possible.

Enable Global Collaboration

You can enable data-anywhere access that spans storage and locations to accelerate applications across the data center or around the world.

Data Integrity and Security

Take advantage of authentication, encryption, security and replication options to meet your business and regulatory requirements.

Enhanced Data Availability

Leverage concurrent file access and block-level locking, clustered data access and data replication.

Improved Automation

Benefits include policy-driven automation/tiering, storage pools and extensible management and monitoring infrastructure.

Information Lifecycle Management

Disk storage pools, external storage pool and high-performance metadata processing are among benefits.

Policy-Based Storage Management

Placement, management, backups and HSM operations integrated with TSM and HPSS, and reporting are included.

Highly Scalable HSM Platform

Take advantage of ILM to keep overall cost and complexity down through a tiered storage system that supports data in all life cycles.

Key Features

  • Provides extreme scalability
  • Reduces storage costs
  • Improves security and management efficiency
  • Global file sharing with active file management
  • Transforms data economics
  • Manage and gain insights from massive amounts of data

Use Cases

Spectrum Scale is used in many different industries and applications to provide fast access to storage systems of all kinds and sizes, from small scale up to enterprise-class systems with thousands of hosts.

Scientific Computing

Powering some of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Spectrum Scale is popular among the global research community to help scientists analyze large amounts of data efficiently.

Life Sciences

The growing amount of genomics data to be stored and analyzed quickly in fields like precision medicine make Spectrum Scale a parallel file system of choice in life sciences.

Finance

Spectrum Scale is a favored parallel file system in financial services, making it easy for to track fast-moving stock numbers and process large volumes of transactions.

Oil & Gas

Energy companies prefer using Spectrum Scale-based solutions for faster, more accurate analysis of data to help improve drilling success, optimize production and enhance safety.

Media & Entertainment

Spectrum Scale-based solutions help keep customers entertained and informed by accelerating production and delivering real-time information.

Manufacturing

By quickly processing, storing, and analyzing massive amounts of data, Spectrum Scale is a trusted choice for manufacturers to bring products to market faster and more cost-effectively.

Sample Configuration

Spectrum Scale-based solutions by RAID Inc. are tailored to your needs. We build, configure and tune the system, deliver it on time and help install it. All RAID Inc. + Spectrum Scale solutions are scalable in both capacity and performance.

Why RAID Incorporated?

Leading-Edge Technology

Our technological leadership is born from our extensive investments in leading-edge research and development.

Deep Technical Experience

Our team has deep technical expertise at the highest levels of scale when designing, implementing and supporting high performance, scalable file system solutions.

Industry-Leading Support

We are known for our industry-leading support for all of our technology. We take ownership of any issue and are your first and only contact.

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